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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    A nobody whose sole claim to fame is that 26 years ago he lived with Obama but the book he is writing isn't a tell-all? Wow, what savvy publisher wouldn't snap that up for a six-figure advance!
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    11/21/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Come on, be fair. He says right in the ad that he has a "highly visible career", so I'm guessing: school crossing guard at P.S. 6, person waving in Rock Center during "Today" show, or Jay McInerney.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    it's Vadim Ponorovsky from Paradou. He had to edit all the "fucking cocksucker motherfucker''s from the CL listing ..
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    Hey, I work at Five Guys here in D.C. and Obama comes in three times a week.

    Here's what he orders:

    A single patty cheeseburger
    fried onions
    lettuce
    tomato
    pickles
    barbeque sauce

    In my memoir the sandwich has a late night conversation with the president where it helps him solve national issues, offering sage advice on foreign policy, and discussing the detriments of high cholesterol and closing Guantanamo. The president will think it was all indigestion, but the world will know "Cowpatty" was the most influential slab of processed dead meat the president ever conversed with.

    I’m planning to ask for movie rights.
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    11/21/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Make that burger an elaborate metaphor for Iraq and you've got yourself a deal.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    This listing may set a new standard for "most requirements for least rewards." (Also for "most protracted hanging on of coattails.")
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Anyone fitting most of the requirements has better (and/or paid) things to do with their time. Starting with writing their own book to complete the graduate program.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    @La Mareada: Porque estas mareada?

    #tips
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Porque si tenga dinero para una vida amable y estable en Manhattan, no quiera ser una esclava por un pendejo codo. Por supuesto!

    (Perdoname, no puedo escritar los diacriaticos ahorita)
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    @La Mareada: That's why I live in Mexico (for real) - I'm a reverse immigrant.

    #tips
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    12:52 AM

    @Lysergic Asset: Donde estas?
    I was one too(OAX y GTO), until circumstances dragged me back to the states. I'll "retire" to Mex a couple of more times before 65.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    At least he politely thanked in advance any sarcastic Craigslisters who might point out what a laughable, stingy wretch he is.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    You have a sacrificial intern around there that can play double agent, don't you?
    Extra credit or something?
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    Vadim Ponorovsky will probably need something to fill his time soon. I hear he is creative, imaginative and a fine writer.
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    Image of misha trotsky misha trotsky
    11/21/09

    @OliversArmy: And he excels in transferring his emotions to words. Truly the hallmark of a fine writer.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    James Frey
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/21/09

    @Tremonius: #Guesses
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/21/09

    In reply to Which Upper West Side Personality and 1983 Obama Roommate Needs a Memoir-Writing Assistant?
    He should hire the guy who wrote this:

    [gawker.com]
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/21/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    Fares are simply taxes—incredibly regressive taxes, just like the sales taxes that New York City residents suffer to fund our own transit while suburban New Yorkers bitch about the prospect of being charged to clog our streets with their cars

    Yeah, and we do that because if you think subway fares are ridiculous, look at LIRR or Metro North fares once in a while. And then look up how fast they've risen over the past few years.

    You guys in the city really don't know how good you've got it.

    You think $100 a month is a lot to pay for a monthly ticket? Try doubling it. For traveling the same distance in the same amount of time. And how about a 23% increase over the last 3 years?

    And you wonder why we want to drive?
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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    11/21/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    Can we also outsource all labor within the MTA to a non-union shop. The TWU has stood in the way of implementing new technology (they fought automated announcements in favor giving unintelligible conductors something to do), has made it impossible to fire workers for anything short of murder, and has hopefully featherbedded the system with way too much labor. And did we mention the sweetheart pension and benefit deals. In other municipal news, did anyone notice as part of the news about Bloomberg's city staff cuts that the benefits to salary ratio of city employees is 37% (in the private sector, it's less than 25% typically). Just goes to show that unions are bleeding the taxpayer dry.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    $205 monthly LIRR pass plus $89 monthly Metrocard equals the reason I now drive.
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    Thank you for this, Pareene. This is my favorite post you've ever written.

    Also, MTA: everyone knows you are full of shit when you stall at the same stations every day for five minutes at a time and claim there is train traffic ahead.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    11/20/09

    @FitnessMadeSimple: I once heard that they were waiting for passengers to transfer from other trains and that there was train traffic ahead.

    WHICH ONE IS IT!?
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    11/20/09

    @Mike Byhoff: Well, I take the 6 express to the Bronx, and they pull this crap all the time. They stop at Parkchester, where the 6 local stops across the platform. If a 6 local pulls in at the same time or just after the express, they'll hold the express there for the NEXT local, so they can also transfer. They tell us there is train traffic ahead, but it is clearly bullshit, as they're suddenly able to move as soon as the passengers board from the following local. It is infuriating.
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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    11/21/09

    @FitnessMadeSimple: More infuriating is when they use that announcement after you've been waiting 20 minutes for a train to arrive at the station.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    I thought you loved centrally-planned bureaucracies? Good luck finding those "civil servants" by the way, that was good for a laugh.
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    Image of Pareene Pareene
    11/20/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: You're right! No one on earth has ever figured out how to competently manage a massive public transit system! Especially no one in Paris, or Tokyo, or London, where they had to cancel all the subways because there were no "civil servants" :(
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/20/09

    @Pareene:

    I'd come up there and argue, but I think Septa's on strike again.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    11/20/09

    @Pareene: Last time I was in London, I got stranded at Euston at like 10 or 11pm with a pile of tarty, tacky MILFs - literally, hundreds of them - screaming out the lyrics to "Angels". Then I had to take a gypsy cab back, in which I found a cell phone, so I did the right thing and got in touch with the last person dialed to get the phone back to this person and they wouldn't leave for hours after coming to get their phone at a terrible barbeque restaurant, as if British people even understand the very concept of a barbeque! FUCK London's transit system.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
    It's so weird to sit in a smelly shitty subway station in Milan and yet look up and see a digital board telling me the next Linea A train is 2:01 away. I don't understand why NYC can't just strike a deal with SONY or Mitsubishi and let them brand some dumb monitors and get 'em down there already -- the technology exists, wtf.
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11/20/09

    @lobstr: Because that would mean actually investing in the network. As much as I hate London and it's Underground, you'll always know when the next train is due, and be able to phone someone to let them know you will be late.

    I feel sorry for those living outside of Manhattan on the weekends.
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